The relationship that digital currency users have with fiat money is not distant or remotely hostile  despite some assertions to the contrary. The same is true of the relationship between Bitcoin and banks. People who use bitcoins and other digital currencies are not attempting to tr...

Arjan, The remittance process described appears smooth and cost-effective with Bitcoin and other "crypto-currencies" as a transit feature, but concerns with other necessary features of remittances exist. What are the costs of converting cash to Bitcoins for the sender of the remittanc...

A Bitcoin conference in New York last week drew a motley crowd. There were the expected wide-eyed believers in the digital currency, earnest entrepreneurs building Bitcoin-related businesses, and somewhat more skeptical venture capitalists  but also traditional banking lawyers and an...

Print Email Reprints Comment Twitter LinkedIn Facebook Google+ WASHINGTON  A diverse group of entrepreneurs is trying to solve a riddle that may hold the key to Bitcoin and other digital currency moving into the mainstream: how to insure accounts. For all of the energy and innovation...

The payments industry has been ripe for disruption for as long as I can remember. Historically conservative and non-experimental, banking and financial services always appear to be the laggard for any new technology. But none of that has stopped recent innovators from pursuing things ...

A group of angel investors including SecondMarket founder Barry Silbert has invested $510,000 in BitPay, a firm that processes payments for merchants in the digital currency Bitcoin. BitPay says it plans to use the new capital to move its headquarters to Atlanta from Orlando and to hi...